Outside of the pandemic increasing porn viewership across the board, I don't know that it sets the barometer for that kind of porn as opposed to the economic conditions millennials and zoomers face in general. Living with parents is something that has been plaguing younger generations since at least the 2008 recession. This at least says there has only been a 4% increase in the percentage of 18-29 year-olds living with parents as a result of COVID-19, while I think those people would be less susceptible to that incest porn pathology because they've already left the nest and had a sex life. Chronic NEETs are the ones I think incest porn really targets and in that case it's selling them their alienation as if there's a sticky silver lining to it.
The prevalence of incest porn has a simple explanation: most people don't care about the title/theme of the video a fraction as much as the content, and beyond the title/theme an incest porn video looks just like a generic porn video.
So you make the exact same product -- a generic porn video -- but you slap "stepbrother" or something on it, and now you've opened up a new market for your video without turning off the mainstream audience.
I believe the truth falls somewhere between these two extremes of 'almost everybody who watches wants to fuck their actual family' and 'almost everyone who watches considers that angle irrelevant'. I think you're right about that mechanism playing a part but it must be a huge 'new market' if that works so well right, enough for further enquiry at least
it must be a huge ‘new market’ if that works so well right
It's either a much larger market than one might expect, or it's just super easy to repackage generic porn as incest porn. We know for sure the last part is true -- there are literally just ordinary videos of people fucking titled "stepsis does X" -- so the question is how significant is the first part.
Is it that much easier to repackage content as incest than, say, piano teacher, or neighbor, or roomate? Do those appear as often? How many of those videos are actually generic vs those that are plotted? And also, there is the matter of overcoming the presumably quite strong aversion from people repulsed by that theme, who must themselves also be a significant number.
These aren't questions for you specifically, and I can't feign total ignorance because I was a teen with google once and I remember many of the answers, unless it has changed much recently (I've been told it exploded)
Yes I only did the bare minimum with checking google trends and I thought it was possible someone would correct me. I thought I heard somewhere that the rise of incest porn had something to do with women becoming more interested in porn and preferring stories or something? It sounds like nonsense. But the one thing that’s definitely true is that it was huge before the pandemic and is still a thing now. It may have morphed from the MILF fetish from earlier. That in itself is kind of incest-y without necessarily being incestuous. Anecdotally MILFs were all the rage around ten years ago and are probably still popular. Paging Doctor Freud...
Has it been declining? "Incest" is going down, but terms like stepbrother/mother/father/sister and cousin are the ones used in the titles and those are all remaining steady or increasing in search volume. Add -porn to the end and search frequency is either increasing (stepsister porn) or remaining steady. Investing in stepmother porn is a smart idea right now because the returns are twice that of stepfather porn.
Outside of the pandemic increasing porn viewership across the board, I don't know that it sets the barometer for that kind of porn as opposed to the economic conditions millennials and zoomers face in general. Living with parents is something that has been plaguing younger generations since at least the 2008 recession. This at least says there has only been a 4% increase in the percentage of 18-29 year-olds living with parents as a result of COVID-19, while I think those people would be less susceptible to that incest porn pathology because they've already left the nest and had a sex life. Chronic NEETs are the ones I think incest porn really targets and in that case it's selling them their alienation as if there's a sticky silver lining to it.
The prevalence of incest porn has a simple explanation: most people don't care about the title/theme of the video a fraction as much as the content, and beyond the title/theme an incest porn video looks just like a generic porn video.
So you make the exact same product -- a generic porn video -- but you slap "stepbrother" or something on it, and now you've opened up a new market for your video without turning off the mainstream audience.
I believe the truth falls somewhere between these two extremes of 'almost everybody who watches wants to fuck their actual family' and 'almost everyone who watches considers that angle irrelevant'. I think you're right about that mechanism playing a part but it must be a huge 'new market' if that works so well right, enough for further enquiry at least
The dialectic
It's either a much larger market than one might expect, or it's just super easy to repackage generic porn as incest porn. We know for sure the last part is true -- there are literally just ordinary videos of people fucking titled "stepsis does X" -- so the question is how significant is the first part.
Is it that much easier to repackage content as incest than, say, piano teacher, or neighbor, or roomate? Do those appear as often? How many of those videos are actually generic vs those that are plotted? And also, there is the matter of overcoming the presumably quite strong aversion from people repulsed by that theme, who must themselves also be a significant number.
These aren't questions for you specifically, and I can't feign total ignorance because I was a teen with google once and I remember many of the answers, unless it has changed much recently (I've been told it exploded)
Yes I only did the bare minimum with checking google trends and I thought it was possible someone would correct me. I thought I heard somewhere that the rise of incest porn had something to do with women becoming more interested in porn and preferring stories or something? It sounds like nonsense. But the one thing that’s definitely true is that it was huge before the pandemic and is still a thing now. It may have morphed from the MILF fetish from earlier. That in itself is kind of incest-y without necessarily being incestuous. Anecdotally MILFs were all the rage around ten years ago and are probably still popular. Paging Doctor Freud...